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Conference: “Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm: an interdisciplinary approach”

Wednesday 8th – Friday 10th December 2010, Apex Hotel, Dundee, Scotland

The Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm:
an interdisciplinary approach conference is organised by the Centre for Archive and Information Studies at the University of Dundee. It is supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities research award and is the second conference within the Investigating the Archive project. The first conference, the Philosophy of the Archive, was held in Edinburgh in March 2009. Selected papers from that conference are available in a special issue of Archival Science, Vol 9, no 3, 2009. The speakers and presenters are from a wide range of countries, including Brazil, Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

The conference will explore the following themes:

Session 1: Value, Appraisal and Theories of Identity and Memory

Session 2: The Impact of Description on the Archival Record

Session 3: The Act of Display and Interpretation in the Creation of Memory

Session 4: Records and Truth: the Creation of Community and National Identities

Session 5: Everyone their Own Archivist – an Eternal Verity or a Digital Virtue?

Session 6: Activating the Archive: A Site for Creative Exploration.

Session 7: Beyond the Written Word: Recording Memory and Identity

Session 8: The Making of History: Archives and the Historian

The keynote speakers are:

* Terry Cook, University of Manitoba, Canada: Shifting the archival paradigm for memory, identity and community
* David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow, University College London: Pandora’s plenitude: archives for all forever?
* Graham Dominy, Chief Director, National Archives of South Africa: Overcoming the apartheid legacy

Full details are in the Conference Programme. Please click on the Programme button to the left.
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wolfthomas (14. August 2010). Conference: “Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm: an interdisciplinary approach” Archivalia. Abgerufen am 9. November 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/brdc


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